Can there be a "kindered" peace?
There are more resources now devoted to the pursuit of peace than at any time in the history of the international system. The participating cast of actors--international, regional, state, and nonstate--seek to create a peace that is essentially Kantian in spirit, and thus heavily dependent upon the maintenance of...

Canada and United Nations peace operations: challenges, opportunities, and Canada's response.
Canadians take pride in the peacekeeping legacy of their country. Looking back over the history of United Nations (UN) peace operations, episodes that loom large include Lester B. Pearson's role in the creation of the first peacekeeping force, the rapid deployment of Canadian troops to Cyprus, the battles of...

Violence against children: a challenge for public health in Pakistan.
ABSTRACT World Health Organization has identified violence against children as a growing public-health issue with a global magnitude. This paper explored violence against children as a challenge in the developing world using Pakistan as a case study. A systematic review of existing research and literature on violence...

Hatred of the Catholic Church.
Rome -- International journalist Vittorio Messori recently came out with accusations that the top international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), corporations and lobby groups are entrenched in anti-Catholicism. He specifically targeted the World Health Organization, homosexual rights activists, pharmaceutical corporations, and environmental organizations, calling them "anti-Catholic lobbies" (LifeSiteNews, Feb. 23, 2007)....

The limits of intervention--humanitarian or otherwise.
The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism by David Kennedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 400 pp. At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention by David Rieff. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. 288 pp. The Rise of Interventionism ...

NGOs in international law; efficiency in flexibility?
9781847205605 NGOs in international law; efficiency in flexibility? Ed. by Pierre Marie Dupuy and Luisa Vierucci. Edward Elgar Publishing 2008 281 pages $140.00 Hardcover KZ4850 The increasingly active role of non-governmental...

To condone or condemn? Regional enforcement actions in the absence of Security Council authorization.
ABSTRACT The U.N. Charter establishes that regional arrangements may not take enforcement actions without authorization from the Security Council. Yet the international community does not always enforce this Charter rule. Major international actors repeatedly tolerate deviations from it even as they assert that it allows no exceptions....

The Pope's peace and Security Council issued Resolution 1325.
INTRODUCTION Pope John Paul II, the late head of the Holy See, which is the governing organ of Vatican City and the Roman Catholic Church, (1) commenced an important conversation with women on January 1, 1995. On that day, he delivered the annual World Day of Peace...

Canada and human security: from the Axworthy doctrine to middle power internationalism.
Introduction One of the main priorities of Canadian foreign policy in the post-Cold War period has been the promotion of human security. Human security, a term popularized by the United Nations Development Program, refers to the physical safety and material welfare of people. The human security agenda...

Small arms issue: achieving sustainable disarmament.
The relationship between disarmament and development like the old choice between "guns" and "butter" has preoccupied nation states from time immemorial. The world community created both the League of Nations and the United Nations largely to help their members grapple with these fundamental problems on an international dimension. At...